Saturday, August 2, 2008

PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI

The history of Pencak Silat Setia Hati Indonesia.

After studying several pencak silat styles in Jombang, West Java, Batavia, Bengkulu, West Sumatra and North Aceh, Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo returned to Surabaya where he worked as a Police Major. By selecting, modifying and integrating the styles he had learnt, in 1903 he created a new style called ‘Joyo Gendilo’ and began teaching at the ‘Sedulur Tunggal Kecer’ fraternity. The word ‘kecer’ indicates the most essential ingredient of the initiation ceremony: kecer, water blessed by the teacher before distributing it to the aspirant students. In the beginning, this perguruan consisted of eight family members, including Knevel a Dutch Indonesian. But its fame rapidly grew after Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo beat all those masters in Surabaya who were unwilling to have his perguruan in ‘their’ territory.At that time, agitation by the Serikat Islam movement in East Java caused the Dutch police to be on cautious guard against all kinds of organised activities in the capital city, Surabaya.

Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo’s standing as an influential and respected master, coupled with his having the nerve to throw a Dutch sailor into the Mas River, worried the Dutch police. He was therefore asked to report to their office and his every move was strictly controlled.Feeling uncomfortable with the situation in Surabaya, Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo took the advice of R.M. Apuk –a student who had been incarcerated in Cipinang (Batavia) for shooting dead a Dutch Indonesian in Mojokerto who had tried to disgrace his younger sister– and moved to Tegal in 1912. There he worked as an irrigation opzichter (supervisor) for two years before returning to Surabaya on the request of one of the members of the Sedulur Tunggal Kecer to work for the Railroad Service. Since the Dutch police in Surabaya still wanted him off their territory, soon thereafter he was moved to the railroad garage in Madiun. In Madiun, Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo opened a perguruan called ‘Joyo Gendilo Cipto Mulyo’, which in 1917 changed its name to ‘Persaudaraan Setya Hati’, or ‘SH’. A great many civic servants, and OSIVA and MULO students wanted him as a teacher.

Many requests also came from outside Madiun, and SH grew rapidly in East and Central Java. To strengthen fraternal ties, a ceremony was organised each year in the month of Asyura (summarised by the writer from Roeslan 1962 and Singgih Joyohusodho, et al. 1963).SH members pledged to protect each other to the death. However, between 1920 and 1929, several breakaway groups were formed.

One SH leader, Eyang Munandar, set up his own group because he was very angry with Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo for training a Dutch civil servant. A great many of his students taught at Taman Siswa and became nationalist figures, including Hardjo Oetomo, who, along with his training group SH Pilang Bangu, was jailed for resisting the Dutch in Cipinang, and Marto Siam, who was arrested and exiled to Boven-Digoelkamp.Coming into 1926/27, again a group of young SH members broke away, naming their group ‘Rekso Wargo’. Rekso Wargo was affiliated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), which recruited youths to spy on the Dutch police. The scope of their operations covered the city of Surabaya and its surroundings. On February 12, 1928, these activities were made known to and reported by the head of the Dutch secret police, van der Lely (Poeze(I) 1982:217). As a result of the involvement of several SH members in PKI activities, in 1927 Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo got into difficulties and became the subject of an intensive investigation related to PKI uprisings in Java and Sumatra. However, no connection could be established between him and these incidents.

Eventually the investigation was called off and Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo was only prohibited from taking on new students for a certain period. But the SH members who proved to have been involved were eventually exiled by the colonial government to Boven-Digoelkamp (Singgih Joyohusodho, et al. 1963:21).

OSIVA is an abbreviation for ‘Opleiding School voor Inlandsche Ambtenaren’, or School for Indigenous Civil Servants, and MULO is an abbreviation for ‘Meer Uitgebreid Lagere Onderwijs’, a type of school equivalent to today’s Junior High School

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Emile on

Jan 8th, 2003, 9:58pm

Dear bapak O'ong,it is interesting to read your account of the history of SH. I did not know that Bapak Munandar left Eyang Soero after a dispute...I learned that Bapak Hardjo Oetomo created 'Setia Hati Pencak Sport Club' in 1922 in Madiun (the present Persaudaraan Setia Hati Terate) and Bapak Munandar created 'Setia Hati Organisasi' (the present Persaudaraan Setia Hati) in Magelang/Semarang in the 20's. Can you tell me more about that period? I'm looking forward to your reply.EmileWarga PSHT (pengeceran in 2002), Venlo (Holland)

Dear EmileAt around the same time, Bapak Soedjai, “Kadang Sedulur Tunggal Kecer Setia Hati” who hailed from Lumajang, East Java, broke away from Setia Hati because of his difference of opinion with other Setia Hati masters. This former leader of Sarekat Rakyat (SR), principal of the basic school in Jombang and scout guide, insisted that pencak silat be taught only to indigenous people. After breaking away, he set up Pentjak Organisatie (PO), also indigenous people. After breaking away, he set up Pentjak Organisatie (PO), also known by the name Persaudaraan Oelama as an affiliation of the Partai Sarekat Islam Indonesia (PSII or Indonesian Islamic Union Party), where he gave pencak silat lessons to all the scouts. PO clearly had a political agenda to resist Dutch colonialism and free the Indonesian people (Poeze(II) 1983:1, 462; see also Poeze(III) 1988:62).WassalamO'ong Maryono

One SH leader, Eyang Munandar, set up his own group because he was very angry with Ki Ngabei Soerodiwirjo for training a Dutch civil servant. A great many of his students taught at Taman Siswa and became nationalist figures, including Hardjo Oetomo, who, along with his training group SH Pilang Bangu, was jailed for resisting the Dutch in Cipinang, and Marto Siam, who was arrested and exiled to Boven-Digoelkamp.Coming into 1926/27, again a group of young SH members broke away, naming their group ‘Rekso Wargo’. :1a. Where did bapak Munandar set up his own training group? 1b. Was bapak Munandar the one who set up the Setia Hati Organisasi in 1932?1c. Where did this happen (in Magelang or Semarang)?1d. Did he do this with permission from Eyang Suro?2a. Does the group 'Rekso Wargo' still exist?2b. If so, under which name?2c. Does the 'Persaudaraan Oelama' still exist?2d. If so under which name?2e. Can you tell me anything about (the history of) 'Setia Hati Winongo Tundas Muda' and 'Setia Hati Iklas"?2f. Do you know of any other SH organisations in Indonesia which still exist today?Since I am warga of PSHT I am very interested in the history of PSHT, maybe you can tell me more....5a. Are you saying that bapak hardjo Oetomo, the founder of PSHT, was a student of bapak Munandar? I thought he was a direct student of Eyang Suro?5b. Can you tell me more about the (early) history of PSHT?5c. Do you have any present contacts within the PSHT? , maybe we have some friends in common?I hope you can answer these questions. I am looking forward to your reply.Salam PersaudaraanEmile

Of course the last questions 5a, 5b and 5c have to be 3a, 3b and 3c. Bye the way if somebody else knows anything about the history of this aliran please reply, after all this is a forum....In the Netherlands, as in France, there is a lot of discussion about the history of SH, PSH and PSHT so it would be a good thing to clarify some of the issues and discussion points. Perhaps with this topic we can make a step forward in mutual understanding and building persaudaraan among the SH pesilat in Europe and Indonesia. More information about SH you can find on the websites:in english and dutch:www.psht.nlin english, dutch and bahasa:www.psht.netin french only:www.setia-hati.netin dutch only:www.setiahati.nlwassalamEmile

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by gambiro on Jan 16th, 2003, 1:11pmDear O'ong,Glad to know that you started to tell or to write the history,it is a very good idea-after you many years someconfused about that.Of course your aim is to make it clear (of course referenced from the right sources)-of course you do not want to have respons from some,saying " I 'm pure SH,you are not",your aim and also mine and the others (beside to know the history) is to know ,to respect each other and strengthen our brotherhood,solidarity amongst the pencak silat organisation.Do you mind if I give some corrections,if something is not quite right?Gambiro

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Michael Waldow on Jan 23rd, 2003, 2:02amDear people of this Forum,It's nice to see so manny good friends here, O'ong howe are you afther your trip to malaysia (WK). O'ong I will make a link on oure website to this forums. Is it oke?And bapak Gambiro also, it's nice you also follow this forum. I hope you wil correct use if whe write some things wrong. (P.S. when do you arrive? and how long do you stay?)And Emile I know you already long from the forum in Holland where whe have a lot of good discussions on the website www.setiahati.nl/forums. And know whe go international.I have on small question can you tell a littel bit more about the different style's Eyang Soerodiwirjo traint.Salam.Michael Waldow

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Emile on Jan 23rd, 2003, 4:05pmSalam Persaudaraan,thank you all for replying. Bapak Gambiro was so kind to send me an e-mail concerning the matter, so we could get acquinted by e-mail.Michael,thank you for joining the forum! As far as I know, Eyang Soero, started to train Silat in Jombang in East Java, in the famous Pondok Pesantren Tebu Ireng (where also pak Dirdjo, the founder of PD trained). After that he studied the West Javanese styles from the preanger (from the villages Cimande, Cikalong etc.) and some styles from Batavia (Betawen, Kwitang). After his move to Sumatra he studied the styles of Sumatra (mostly from Padang). Here he spent most of his time. If this is not correct, I apologize, I would appriciate it a lot if somebody could correct me.It would be great if bapak Gambiro could inform us in this forum about the history of SH and could answer the questions we posed. I am looking forward to his reply.May God bless you all.Emile :)

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by gambiro gunawan on Feb 21st, 2003, 12:13amDear all,Setia Hati Organisasi (SHO) was established in Semarang,1932 by pak Moenandar and 50-s of other kadhangs.The aim is to gather all who exits from PSH (Madiun)-it is much better to unite them in an organisation than they do something to make SH worse.SHO keeps the tradition of PSH as keceran,to teach pencak SH only to kadhang,jurus 1 to 36 and mental spritualism / philosophy.Eyang Suro was invited and promised to attend but didn't come (maybe because of the transportation or others-it was in 1932 !).On 1972in a konggres / musyawarah nasional in Jogyakarta,everybody agreed to change the name, back to Persaudaraan Setia Hati-the reason is simple :we have been organized / in organisation,so why we must (still) put the word 'organisation' and the second reason :we keep the origin jurus/pencak and also the philosohy,the same as taught in the Eyang Suro days.Many kadhang of SHO participated in the establishmentof IPSI in Surakarta,1948-maybe 75% .For us,pencak silat and philosophy is united,as a coin-if we only learn pencak without philosophy,what are we going to be? A jawara,macho?Pencak is only a tool to strengthen solidarity, fraternity, brotherhood amongst us and to others outside us,too.The topic / subject : Persaudaraan Pencak SilatSetia Hati ,so we only discuss of pencak silat (SH)?And has anybody heard or familiar to: Persaudaraan Pencak Silat Setia Hati?I think many heard about Persaudaraan Setia Hati,Persaudaraan Setia Hati Terate,Persatuan Hati,Pencak Organisasi ,KPS Nusantara,Perisai Putih.I think we change the title to : Setia Hati or anything.Thank you very much,salam SH.Gambiro

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Sam on Jun 4th, 2003, 8:35pmSo currently, do we actually know how many setia hati schools there are, all over the world?

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by gambiro on Jun 4th, 2003, 10:04pmDear Sam,Our organisation (Persaudaraan Setia Hati) have only 3 schools in France under Eric Chatelir and no other schools in Europe.He was the first foreigners /European to becomeour family later followed by 5 others.

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Emile Kuntzelaers on Jun 5th, 2003, 5:24amDear Sam,there are about 25 official members (warga) of Persaudaraan Setia Hati TERATE in Europe. They are all inaugurated (pengeceran) at an official ceremony (pengesahan), after years of training.There are 'warga' in Russia (Moscow), France (Paris) and The Netherlands (Amsterdam. Apeldoorn, Venlo and Zeist). Most warga outside Europe are in The Netherlands. The school in Venlo, the Netherlands, which I am part of consists of 10 'warga'.There are also a lot of schools in Holland who use the name 'Setia Hati'. But they are not connected to either PSH or PSHT.By the way, there are good relationships between PSH and PSHT in France.I hope you have enough information. If not please let me know or ask Pak Gambiro, who know's a lot more about SH.Bye Samemile:)

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Emile (Kuntzelaers) on Jun 5th, 2003, 5:33amon 06/05/03 at 05:24:25, Emile Kuntzelaers wrote:Most warga outside Europe are in The Netherlands. :)Of course I mean, outside INDONESIA , as a comparison: there are about 1.500.000 - 2000.000 warga of PSHT in Indonesia (of the first grade, Tingkat I), and about 200-300 warga of the second level (tingkat II). One person is of the third level (tingkat III): This is the leader of our organisation, Mas Tarmadji Budi Harsono.bye emileTitle: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Ken Shafer on Jun 22nd, 2003, 5:24amSalam Gentlemen,I am impressed with the discussion here of PS Setia Hati. I was wondering if any of you guys could tell me about the lineage and history of Setia Hati that Cor Turpijn taught?Is Turpijn's Setia Hati the same as the Setia Hati practised in Indonesia?Any other information is greatly appreciated!Salam Hormat,Ken

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by O'ong Maryono on Jun 22nd, 2003, 9:04amDear Ken,I knew pak Turpijn in 1995,when he came to my house.In my house we had discussions and I asked him to show his jurus then I was very sure he is not a Setia Hati.His schools in Netherland has the same name as mine (Persaudaraan Setia Hati) but only the same name,we do not have connections at all (before and after).I'll be glad to communicate with you any time.

Tahnk you very much,Gambirogambiro@indo.net.idjaladharma2001@yahoo.com

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Brown on Apr 28th, 2004, 7:58pmGreetings,Does any of you know about the late teacher Frits Vermaessen? He came to Holland and was one of the 1st to teach SH in the Netherlands. He died around 1994

Title: Re: "PERSAUDARAAN PENCAK SILAT SETIA HATI"Post by Emile Kuntzelaers on Jun 1st, 2004, 8:48pmI do not know much about mr. vermaessen. Maybe you can ask around on the following pencak silat forum: www.pencak.net/forumSomebody on the forum may be able to answer your question.